Background

Mr. Henry Robert Kravis serves as a Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of KKR Management LLC at KKR & Co. L.P. He co-founded the firm on January 1, 1976 and is actively involved in managing the firm. Mr. Kravis served as a Partner at the firm since January 1, 1996 and General Partner until 1995. Mr. Kravis co-founded KKR Management LLC in 1976 and serves as its Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He serves as a Special Advisor of Accel-KKR LLC. ... Mr. Kravis co-founded KKR Private Equity Investors, L.P. He serves as a General Partner of KKR Associates, LP. Mr. Kravis was the Co-founder, Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KKR Guernsey GP Limited, the General Partner of KKR & Co Guernsey LP. He served at The Bear Stearns Companies, LLC. Mr. Kravis served as a Partner in the Corporate Finance Department of BearStearns & Company from 1969 to 1976. Mr. Kravis serves as Co-Chairman of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which he founded in 1996. He serves as Founding Chairman of New York City Investment Fund Manager, Inc. Mr. Kravis serves as Member of Supervisory Board of Tarkett Holding GmbH. He serves as Director at Legrand France SA and First Data Holdings, Inc. Mr. Kravis has been a Director of Fimep S.A. since 2002. He has been a Director of Lumina Parent since 2003. Mr. Kravis has been a Director of First Data Corporation since September 2009. He serves as a Director of China International Capital Corporation Limited. Mr. Kravis has been a Director of Marconi Communications, Inc. since August 1995. He has been a Director of Duracell International Inc. since June 1988. Mr. Kravis serves as a Director of American Re Corporation, The Stop & Shop Companies, Inc., AutoZone, Inc., Flagstar Companies, Inc., Flagstar Corporation, K-III Communications Corp., Merit Behavioral Care Corporation, Randall's Food Markets, Inc., Newsquest Capital PLC, Safeway Inc., and World Color Press, Inc. He serves as a Director of KSL Resorts Corp., KSL Recreation Group Inc., and KSL Recreation Corporation. Mr. Kravis serves as a Director of Evenflo & Spalding Holdings Corporation, Evenflo Company Inc., Accel-KKR LLC, U.S. Natural Resources Inc., United Fixtures Company as well as several private companies. He serves as a Director of Accel-KKR Telecom. Mr. Kravis serves on the Boards of MedCath Incorporated, Regal Cinemas, Inc., Spalding Holdings Corporation, and Trinity Acquisition plc. He serves as a Trustee of Central Park Conservancy Inc. Mr. Kravis serves as a Director, Chairman Emeritus, or Trustee of several cultural and educational institutions, including the WNET.ORG, Columbia Graduate School of Business, where he serves as the Chairman of the Board, Rockefeller University, The Business Council, Claremont McKenna College, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He served as the Chairman Emeriti of The Partnership For New York City Inc. and serves as its Director. Mr. Kravis served as a Trustee of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Chairman at Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. He served as a Director of Legrand S.A. since 2002. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of BFW Liquidation, LLC (formerly, Bruno's Supermarkets, Inc.) since August 1995 and Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. He served as a Director of Sotheby's, IDEX Corporation, Owens-Illinois Group, Inc., Owens-Illinois Inc., Bristol West Insurance Company, BRW Acquisition Inc. and Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of KKR Guernsey GP Limited and KKR & Co Guernsey LP. He served on the Board of The Gillette Company. Mr. Kravis served as the Chairman of the Board of Borden Chemical Inc. from December 21, 1994 to January 10, 1995. He served as a Director of Accuride Corporation from 1998 to January 1, 2003. Mr. Kravis served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Vasogen Inc. He served as a Director of RentPath Inc. (formerly, PRIMEDIA Inc.) from November 1991 to May 17, 2006. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (formerly, Borden Chemical Inc.) since 1995. He served as a Director of KinderCare Learning Centers LLC since February 1997. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of Boyds Collection Ltd. since April 1998. He served as a Director of govWorks, Inc. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of Amphenol Corp., from May 1997 to March 10, 2004. He served as a Director of Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company until March 11, 2004 and TI Group Limited since May 1999. He served as a Director of Union Texas Petroleum Inc. since July 1985. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital. He served as a Director of Bristol West Holdings Inc., since its acquisition by KKR in 1998. Mr. Kravis served as a Director of Alliance Healthcare Services, Inc. from November 1999 to September 8, 2004. At Claremont McKenna College, he founded Kravis Leadership Institute and established the Kravis Prize in Leadership. Mr. Kravis has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies. Mr. Kravis has an M.B.A. from Columbia Graduate School of Business in 1969 and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College in 1967.

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